I don’t know if I should move in with my older sister or not
I’m 15M and my sister is 28F. Yeah, huge age gap thanks to my parents lol, but honestly she’s more like a second parent + best friend to me at the same time. We’ve always been really close.
Last January my mom and dad died in an accident, and since then life has been pretty messed up. My other sister (26F) basically put her whole life on hold for me. She left her job temporarily and stayed with me in our family house so I could finish my school year normally instead of suddenly changing countries/schools while grieving everything.
My older sister visits almost every weekend even though she’s busy with work. She works as a private client manager for a luxury jewelry brand in Germany (Hamburg), and financially she’s doing extremely well. She’s the type who has everything planned, organized, disciplined, etc. Meanwhile my other sister is softer and more emotional.
Now my school year is almost over, and my 26-year-old sister has to go back because she still has her own career and life there too. So both of my sisters sat me down and basically said I’ll need to move in with one of them.
The thing is… they both strongly think I should stay with my older sister in Germany because
\\- she already has legal guardianship over me now
\\- she’s financially stable
\\- better schools/opportunities there
\\- she has a more permanent setup
But honestly she scares me sometimes 😭
She’s way stricter than my mom ever was. Curfews, discipline, routines, studies first, no nonsense. She genuinely cares about me a lot, I know that, but she treats me like she’s fully in “parent mode” now.
Part of me feels weird about moving in with my sister permanently. Like… is that even normal? Most people my age live with parents, not their older sister in another country. Another part of me feels guilty because my sisters sacrificed so much for me already and I don’t want to make things harder.
At the same time, I know she’s probably trying her best after suddenly becoming responsible for a teenager at 28.
I honestly don’t know if moving there is the right decision or if I’m just scared of change.
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